allthefights

Little Joy - Little Joy

2009-04-21T14:47:04Z

THE NEXT TIME AROUND
One too many goals
That measure out your worth
To seek your weight in gold

Sat by the ivory sill
The further out you look
The further out you'll be

It's not enough to set the terms
If nothing ventured, nothing earned
Though odds are set against

In time, I'll belong to you
It's how it's meant to be

Settled on your own
Sweeping dust from stones
With a letter home

Back where the hour's long
The simplest things invite a thrill
If just by noticing at will

It's not enough to set the terms
If nothing ventured, nothing earned
It's how it's always been

E onde a sorte h de te levar
Saiba, o caminho o fim, mais que chegar
E queira o dia ser gentil
? tua mo aberta pra quem

In time, I'll belong to you
That's how it's meant to be
And how it's always been

BRAND NEW START
Take advantage of the season
to take off your overcoat
the spirits will lift
of those young men you provoke
but I'll be laughing, knowing I will take you home

there ain't no lover like the one I've got
ain't no lover like the one I've got
she and I and a brand new start
I gotta give all my love

all this time they had me thinking
love's a boat that's long been sinking
but you made the claim
that taking a chance is embracing the change
I count my blessings knowing you will take me home

there ain't no lover like the one I've got
ain't no lover like the one I've got
she and I and a brand new start
I gotta give all my love

I've got time to hold my own
what's a day when the years are on their way
I gotta say

there ain't no lover like the one I've got
ain't no lover like the one I've got
she and I and a brand new start
ain't no lover like the one I've got

Love won't bring me down

PLAY THE PART
Spending time
Convinced that it's mine with her
Just to keep her out of mind

Still I'll take care to see
Which way the wind blows
Notice how her hair curls

Pay no mind
To the clown who sits to your side
Content to yield despite pride

He is a fool to assume you'd spare a thought
I'm a thieve who's just been caught
And I don't find it funny anymore

And so I won't play the part
I played before
Oh, no...
Not to you

I don't see you laughing anyway
And so I won't play a part
In your mistake
No way

Not unless you stay

NO ONE'S BETTER SAKE
One thought has me turning back
a dozen point the other way
We act upon desire
to each a hand for hire
and patience isn't worth the wait

You've got knives in your eyes
You would be happy not to change your mind
I can't defend you truly
When I worry about smoke instead of putting out the fire

And if we work it out
Chances abound
We'd be standing our ground
For no one's better sake
(better say) goodbye

What are we waiting for? (x6)

Hum... What are we waiting for?

How faint might that light become
in focus but at miles away?
Although my position
just gives you an ignition
be certain that I know my praise

So is this how it ends?
Oh with a whimper in the place of a bang
I can't defend you truly
When I worry about smoke instead of putting out the fire

And if we work it out
chances abound
we'd be standing our ground
For no one's better sake
(better say) goodbye

We would be friends
if we tried again
I'll take second place
just to end the race
for no one's better sake
(better say) goodbye.

UNATTAINABLE
Only when the goal
Is unattainable
Do I start to feel
Like I'm losing myself
And this deep secret
That hasn't come out yet
Is buried down deep with the rest

I can't coerce you into this one
Jealousy lay all your spells to bed
I'll choose unloved instead.

If only sounds were so
To guide the doubtful ones
Beyond the rough
Where not as much is good enough
Oh if you find yourself
Amongst the lonely ones
I will be waiting you
With open arms

I can't coerce you into this one
Jealousy lay all your spells to bed
I'll choose unloved instead.

SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
Shoulder to shoulder
Amused, but not advanced
He, she
You, me
It's all just circumstance
Eager, hopeful
Content to play the friend
Timid advances
With mutual regret

He can't always be wrong
He can't always be right
Not a matter of choice
Just a matter of time
Till they know where they stand
Once they've reached the end

Awkward choices
With smiles from ear to ear
A faded union
That won't survive the years
Timeless series
Of blameless accidents
Oh, disturbing cicle
Of inherited mistakes

She can't always be wrong
He can't always be right
Not a matter of choice
Just a matter of time
Till they know where they stand
Once they've reached the end

I'll be mine where I place my drafts
When the desert ends
I last the dust
I'll be mine where I place my drafts
When the desert ends
I ask the dust

WITH STRANGERS
I bet you're wondering how I knew
that this would come to an end
he stole your heart from you
so you tossed me out to the wind

I keep pretending not to care
but the winter scent in her hair
compels my hands to do
the things my heart wouldn't dare

I'll keep holding on to you
see no use perfecting lives with strangers
if only you, if only now

and in the twilight of this hour
when fools are mistaken for men
this shadow suits me well
my regrets, I'll face in the end

I'll keep holding on to you
see no use perfecting lives with strangers
if only you, if only now

I'll keep holding on to you
see no use perfecting love with strangers
if only you, if only now

KEEP ME IN MIND
Read from start to end
And again
hold the feelings which are crossing the brain
Strips the chord of a sensible word
And what's worse?

She left her mark
Indelible
Oh the nature of her scripted verse
Keeps my eyes
Set on the page
And it says

Frankly dear I'm forced to give it up
Tried my hand and now I've had enough
Even though we have to say goodbye
Keep me in mind
Keep me in mind
Keep me in mind

Blamed in advance
For the past
With no bearing on the present tense
All that's left
Are claims that she made
When she said

Oh dear someday
You'll learn to be
Someone better, fit to pursue me
But 'til then
We'll call it the end
And she adds

Frankly dear the drifters had it right
Stayed the afternoon and left at night
Even though we have to say goodbye
Keep me in mind
Keep me in mind
Keep me in mind
Keep me in mind

HOW TO HANG A WARHOL
Momma, someday you'll be so proud of me
You'll see me hanging in the New York gallery
Someday i'm gonna draw from the left side of my brain
People are gonna ask, 'is it brilliant or plain?'

But as long as I don't know how to hang a Warhol
I keep sketching birds, that are all like herds
Very simple and true, like, you know, when we doo doo
And if you like them, yeah
But if you don't, stop there
'Cause I really don't care

I said, Papa someday I'm gonna write a symphony
48-piece band all dressed up like me
I said, I'll write someday the satyrs of old songs
i'm gonna chill the marrow in their bones

But as long as I can't get into Carnegie Hall
I keep writing songs that are all my own
Very simple and dumb, like I always have done
If you like them, yeah
But if you don't, too bad
'Cause it's all I have

Ever since I met her, I keep thinking
'God, how great it is to play a guitar'
This way I feel that she's always with me
'Cause every other song's telling me that this time
Is about our love

DON'T WATCH ME DANCING
Margarida has a strange appeal
Sways between suitors on a broken heel
Of course her desires they always mistook
She'd rather've been scarred than be scarred with loathe

In conversation she often contends
Costumes build customs that involve dead ends
She found her courage in a change of scene
This Sunday's social would be short its queen

All her best years spent distracted
By these tired reenactments
With the right step she'll try her chances
Somewhere else

There he is a step outside her view
Reciting the words he hoped she might pursue
Night upon night a faithful light at shore
If he'd only convince his legs across the floor

Please, don't watch me dancing
Oh no, don't watch me dancing

Something changes when she glances
Enough to teach you what romance is
With the right step they try their chances
Somewhere else

(Repeat)
Please, don't watch me dancing
Don't watch me dancing

Mother Mother: Verbatim

2009-03-19T03:27:50Z

I wear women's underwear
And then I go to strike a pose in my full length mirror
I cross my legs just like a queer
But my libido is strong when a lady is near, ya
What defines a straight man's straight?
Is it the boxer in the briefs or a twelve ounce steak?
I tell you what a women loves most
It's a man who can slap but can also stroke

Goin' in the wind is an eddy of the truth and it's naked
It's verbatim and it's shakin'
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no more getting' elated
No more listless invitations

And every day I go out walking past its sickly windows
I see people dying there
But my tender age makes it hard to care
Incinerator and a big smoke stack
It's a phallic symbol and it makes me laugh
All I need is a heart attack
C'mon, humble my bones with a Cardiac

For the love of fuck
For the sake of Pete
Did you ever really think you'd love a guy like me?
I am the rooster in the morning
I'm the cock of the day
I'm the boxer in the briefs
I'm a twelve ounce steak
Eh-oh
Yabo

Ya, it's verbatim
And ya, and it's naked
And ya, and it's shakin'
It shakes, shakes shakes

Ra Ra Riot: Dying is Fine

2008-08-26T19:44:29Z

To settle our thoughts
Never minding what for
nothing of a harm to dread
On my mind
Tell me what belies
Tell me what I could have
Oh
Tell me what for

No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of

Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good

Is this it
Maundering about and
All I have is too much time
To understand
One can only love
Life until its ending
Oh
And I can't forget

No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of

Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good

kate nash: made of bricks

2008-05-13T05:30:18Z

play
I like to play
I like to
I like to play, play
I like to play
I like to play, play
I like to play
I like to play, play
I like to play, play
I like to play, play
I like to play, play
I like to play, play
I like to play

I play all day long in my room
I play all day long in my room
I like to play

foundations
Thursday night,
everything's fine,
Except you've got that look in your eyes,
when I'm telling a story
And you find it boring you're thinking of something to say.
You'll go along with and then drop it
And you humiliate me, in front of our friends.

Then I'll use that voice what you find annoyin'
And say something like
"intelligent input darlin' why don't you just have another beer then?"

Then you call me a bitch and everyone we're with will be embarrassed,
and I won't give a shit.

[Chorus:]
My fingertips are holding onto the
cracks in our foundations,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't.
And everytime we fight I know it's not right,
everytime that you're upset and I smile
I know I should forget, but I can't.

You said I must eat so many lemons,
'cause I am so bitter.
I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate,
'cause they are much fitter"

Yes it was childish
and you got aggressive
and I must admit that I was a bit scared,
but it gives me thrills to wind you up.

[Chorus]

Your face is pasty,
'cause you've gone and got so wasted,
what a surprise,
don't want to look at your face,
'cause it's making me sick.

You've gone and got sick on my trainers,
I only got these yesterday.
Oh my gosh, I cannot be bothered with this.

Well I'll leave you there till the mornin',
and I purposely won't turn the heating on
and dear God, I hope I'm not stuck with this one.

[Chorus]

And every time we fight I know it's not right,
every time that you're upset and I smile.
I know I should forget, but I can't.
[x2]

mouthwash
This is my face
Covered in freckles
With the occasional spot
And some veins

This is my body
Covered in skin
And not all of it
You can see

And, this, is my mind
It goes over and over
The same old lines

And, this, is my brain
It's torturous analytical thoughts
Make me go insane

And I use mouthwash
Sometimes I floss
I got a family
And I drink cups of tea

I've got nostalgic pavements
I've got familiar faces
I've got a mixed-up memory
And I've got favourite places

And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be alright
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be alright

This is my face
I've got a thousand opinions
And not the time to explain

And this is my body
And no matter how you try and disable it
Yes I'll still be here

And, this, is my mind
And although you try to infringe
You cannot confine

And, this, is my brain
And even if you try and hold me back
There's nothing that you can gain

'Cause I use mouthwash
Sometimes I floss
I've got a family
And I drink cups of tea

I've got nostalgic pavements
I've got familiar faces
I've got a mixed-up memory
And I've got favourite places

I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be alright
And I'm singing "oh oh" on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be alright
Oh oh oh oh oh oh:

dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations

Shiny floor, slippery feet
Lights are dim, my eyes can't meet
The reflection that turns my images
Upside down so I can't see

Think you know everything
You really don't know nothing
I wish that you were more intelligent
So you could see that what you are doing
Is so shitty, to me

Thirty five
People couldn't count
On two hands the amount of times you made me stop
Stop and think why are you being such a dickhead for

Stop being a dickhead,
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead,
Why you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations

Stop, now don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you, stop, now don't show
Just have a think before you

Will you stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you stop, don't show
Will you just have a think before you

My brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take with this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore, so

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations

birds
She was waiting at the station
He was getting off the train
He didn't have a ticket
So he had to bum through the barriers again

Well the ticket inspector saw him rushing through
He said "girl you don't know how much I missed you but
We'd better run 'cause I haven't got the funds to pay this fine."
She said "fine"

Well so they ran out of the station and jumped onto a bus
With two of yesterdays travel cards and two bottles of bud
And he said "you look well nice"

Well she was wearing a skirt
And he thought she looked nice
And yes, she didn't really care about anything else
'Cause she only wanted him to think that she looked nice
And he did

But he was looking at her, yeah all funny in the eye
She said "come on boy tell me what you're thinking
Now don't be shy."
He said alright, "I'll try

All the stars up in the sky
And the leaves in the trees
All the broken bits that make you jump up
And grassy bits in between
All the matter in the world is how much I like you."

She said "what?"
He said "let me try and explain again

"Right, birds can fly so high
And they can shit on your head
And they can almost fly into your eye
And make you feel so scared.
But when you look at them
And you see that they're beautiful
That's how I feel about you

Right birds can fly so high
And they can shit on your head,
And they can almost fly into your eye
And make you feel well scared
But when you look at them
And you see that they're beautiful
That's how I feel about you
Yeah that's how I feel about you."

She said "what?"
He said "you"
She said "what are you talking about?"
He said "you"

Right birds can fly so high
And they can shit on your head
And they can almost fly into your eye
And make you feel so scared.
But when you look at them
And you see that they're beautiful
That's how I feel about you

Right birds can fly so high
And they can shit on your head
And they can almost fly into your eye
And make you feel well scared.
But when you look at them
And you see that they're beautiful
That's how I feel about you
Right, that's how I feel about you

She said "thanks, I like you too"
He said "cool"

we get on
Simply knowing you exist
Ain't good enough for me
But asking for your telephone number
Seems highly inappropriate

Seeing as I can't
Even say hi
When you walk by

And that time you shook my hand
It felt so nice
I swear I never feel
This way about any other guy
And I never usually notice people's eyes but

I conducted a plan
To bump into you most accidentally
But I was walking along
And I bumped into you much more heavily
Than I'd originally planned
It was well embarrassing and
I think you thought that I was a bit of a twat

I just think that we'd get on
I wish I could tell you face to face
Instead of singing this stupid song
But yeah I just think that we might get on

So I went to that party and everyone
They were kind of arty
And I was wearing this dress
Because I wanted to impress
But I wasn't sure if I looked my best
'Cause I was so nervous
But I carried on regardless
Strutting through each room
Trying to find you

And when I saw you
Kissing that girl
My heart it shattered
And my eyes, they watered
And when I tried to speak I stuttered

And my friends were like whatever
You'll find someone better
His eyes were way too close together
And we never even liked him from the start
And now he's with that tart
And I heard she done some really nasty stuff
Down in the park with Michael
He said she's easy
And if your guy's with someone that's sleazy
Then he ain't worth your time
'Cause you deserve a real nice guy

So I proceeded to get drunk and cry
And lock myself in the toilets
For the entire night

Saturday night
I watched channel five
I particularly liked CSI

I don't ever dream
About you and me
I don't ever make up stuff about us
That would be classed as insanity
I don't ever drive by your house to see if you're in
I don't even have an opinion
On that tramp that you're still seeing
I don't know your timetable
I don't know your face off by heart
But I must admit
That there is still a part of me
That thinks we might get on
That we could get on
That we should get on

mariella
I'm heavy handed
To say the least
My mother thinks
I'll be an awful clutcher
'Cause I spill things from stirring 'em too quickly
I'm far too loud
It's like, as soon as I've got an opinion
It just has to come out
I laugh at stupid things
Just 'cause they tickle me

And
Sometimes I wish
Sometimes I wish I was like Mariella
She got some prittstick
And she glued her lips together
So she never had to speak
Never had to speak
Never had to speak
People used to say she's as quiet as a mouse
She just doesn't make a peep

She marched to her wardrobe
And threw away the colour
Because wearing black looks mysterious
But it didn't impress her mother
She wanted to dress her baby
In patterns and flowers
But Mariella just crossed her arms
And so she cried for hours

Mariella, Mariella
My pretty baby girl
Unglue your lips from being together and
And wear some pink and pearls
You can have your friends 'round
And they can stay for tea
Won't you just try to fit in please
Do this for me

But Mariella just crossed her arms
As she walked up the stairs
And she went into her bedroom
And she sat on her bed
And she looked in the mirror
And she thought to herself
"If I wanna play, I can play with me
If I wanna think, I'll think in my head"

At school, Mariella didn't have many friends
Yeah the girls they all looked at her
And they thought she was quite strange
And the boys they're not really into girls at that age
And the teachers, they thought Mariella was just going through a phase.
But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road
Because she knew all the secrets in her world
Yes, she always got the crossword puzzle right everyday
And she could do the alphabet backwards
Without making any mistakes

Mariella, Mariella
Pretty, pretty girl
Mariella, Mariella
Happy in her own little world
Happy in her own little world

And she said
Yeah I'm never ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Yeah I'm never ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Yeah I'm never ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Gonna unglue my lips from being together
She said I'm never ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Yeah I'm never ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Gonna unglue my lips from being together

the shit song
It is like I'm always thinking to myself
I'd like to meet someone else
It is like I'm always thinking to myself
I'd like to meet someone else

Darling, don't give me shit
'Cause I know that you're full of it
You're full of shit
You're full of shit

Darling, don't give me shit
'Cause I know that you're full of it

I'm sitting with my friends
Getting drunk again on wine
And I think about you

I'm sitting with my friends
Getting drunk again on wine
And I think about you

You don't have to think about yourself
All the time you're full of shit
You know you don't
No you don't have to be so up yourself all the time

You could come round to mine
We could drink some wine
In the summertime
It could be quite nice

You could come round mine
We could drink some wine
In the summertime
It could be quite nice

Actually
I think I might just have the bottle
To myself

Darling, don't give me shit
'Cause I know that you're full of it
You're full of shit
You're full of shit

Darling, don't give me shit
'Cause I know that you're full of it
You're full of it
You're full of it

Darling, don't give me shit
'Cause I know that your full of it
And I know that you're full of it

And darling, you don't give me shit
'Cause I know that your full of it
Yeah I know that you're full of it

You could come round to mine
We could drink some wine
In the summertime
It could be quite nice

You could come round mine
We could drink some wine
In the summertime
It could be quite nice

pumpkin soup
You're chatting to me, like we connect
But I don't even know if we're still friends
It's so confusing,
Understanding you is making me not want to do

And things that I know I should do
But I trip fast and then I lose
And I hate looking like a fool

I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss
I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss

The lights are on
And someone's home
I'm not sure if they're alone
There's someone else inside my head
Living there too fills me with dread

This paranoia is distressing
But I spend most of my night guessing
Are we not, are we together
Will this make our lives much better

I'm not in love
I just wanna be touched

I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss
I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss
Wops I think I've got too close
'Cause now he's telling me I'm girl that he likes most
Now I messed up it's not the first time
I'm not saying you're not on my mind
I hope that you don't think I'm unkind

I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss
I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss

skeleton song
Skeleton you are my friend
But you are made of bone
And you have got no flesh and blood
Running through you to help protect the bone

Skeleton we have been friends for years
And you have seen me through some trials
And tribulations and some tears
But everybody thinks I'm weird
And I should have known
That it wouldn't be long
Until you, you've got me standing in an awkward position
With unwanted attention and a need for explanation
And it's not that I'm letting go of you
But I don't know what to do
Skeleton we are so close
But you have got no body
So why do you insist on wearing clothes
Skeleton when we were young
It was easy
Even though the other kids
They would tease me
But I was only seven I had you
But now I'm twenty-two
And now it's different, when I take you out
And you, you've got me standing in an awkward position
With unwanted attention and a need for explanation
And it's not that I'm letting go of you
But I don't know what to do
'Cause sometimes at night,
I dream of the most terrible things
I take a hammer and I creep out of bed
And I raise it high
And I smash your head
Fibular and tubular
And ribs and cages, too
In fact, while I'm here
I'll smash the whole of you

Smaaaaaaaaaaash !
But Skeleton, you are my friend
And I could never bring your life to an end
Yes Skeleton you are, you are my friend
And I will be there for you until the end
And even though, when I take you out
You've got me, you've got me standing in an awkward position
With unwanted attention and a need for explanation
I could, I could never let you go
And that is all I know
And that is all I know
And that is all I, that is all I know
And that is all I know, know

los campesinos!: hold on now, youngster

2008-05-11T17:46:09Z

you! me! dancing!
The beats, yeah, they were coming out the speakers
And were winding up straight in your sneakers.
And I'm dancing like every song he spins is bis or like
Like all my dance heroes would if they existed.

And it's sad that you think that they're all just scenesters
(And even if we were it's not the scene you're thinking of)
To taking props from like these boy band fashions
All crop tops and testosterone passion.

If there's one thing that I could never confess,
It's that I can't dance a single step.

It's you!
It's me!
And there's dancing!

Not sure if you mind if I dance with you,
But I don't think right now that you care about anything at all.
And oh, if only there were clothes on the floor,
I'd feel for certain I was bedroom dancing.
And it's all flailing limbs at the front line.
Every single one of us is twisted by design
And dispatches from the back of my mind
Say as long as we're here everything is alright.

If there's one thing that I could never confess,
It's that I can't dance a single step.

It's you!
It's me!
And there's dancing!

death to los campesinos!
You've been broken down I go

(war economy)

father führer, don't be mad at me

peasant child, you're into botany

splitting necks and calling the dichotomy

"BEWARE" the sign on the door suggests -

I'm better off with artificial intelligence

I invented you

(I invented you)

AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.

If you catch me with my hands in the till

I promise, sugar, I wasn't trying to steal

I'm just swimming in copper

to smell and pretend

like a robot!

Well, if a leopard doesn't change it's spots

you can't change my perceptions just from dots to dots

i swap the bruising for a bumping sensation

i'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations

I will stop flighting once your circuit board's igniting

singing, "I'M NOT FINISHED, I'M NOT FINISHED! No!"

Mistaking cables for veins can be quite misleading,

friction sparks the metal made it look like bleeding

If you catch me with my hands in the till

I promise, sugar, I wasn't trying to steal

i'm just swimming in copper

to smell and pretend

like a robot!

broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats
One! Two! Three! Four!
One! Two! Three! Four!

Any more tears for the perfect?
Pulled by his chart directly into misery
Kiss him in the face with no lips and no tongue
But with your little, middle, index and ring fingers
Singing I see songs in shapes and colours
Like nuclear physics or pottery ovens
Fluid lines that soar like towers
Patterns that form just like child actors

Put your hand right by my spine (?)
Replace it with a UV light
So I can be the beacon of hope that you'd always expected

These constant broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats
They beat round and round to me
You know he's so much more like Spiderman than you will ever, ever be

So stick with your instincts
Stick with the imprints
With the hieroglyphics that the fan club sent us
A roll with the toppers
The sly steady choppers
Bat it with your eyelids
And lose it with your static
Go b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b - hey!
I'm taking far too many chances
On these less than idealistic romances

Put your hand right by my spine
Replace it with a UV light
So I can be the beacon of hope that you'd always expected

These constant broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats
They beat round and round to me
You know he's so much more like Spiderman than you will ever, ever be.

dont tell me to do the math(s)
We know that we could sell your magazines

If only you would give your life to literature just

Don't read Jane Eyre!

Work on your algebra

And stand out in the rain

And give yourself to simple pleasures but

Never play card games!

Meanwhile, back at home

Not in Communist Russia

Well only on my headphones

We plot our march onto the town hall

And if we’d take prisoners

Or simply simper at those fools

Please don’t tell me to do the math

Please don’t tell me to do the math

Tonight we’re gonna smash this place up

And then we’re gonna deck it out with fairy lights till

We are content!

And then we’ll maybe drown in Dewey decimal

But leave our shoes off at the door ‘cause

That was the point!

Of us at home with the moon

Pouring through the curtains

Working on our attitude

Towards the second hand book shop employees

Reading the inscriptions

That were never meant for their eyes

Please don’t tell me to do the math

Please don’t tell me to do the math

Please don’t tell me to do the math

Please don’t tell me to do the math

I’m stitching up each one of your pockets

So when we are together you’ll maybe look a little less bored

I’m sticking your fingers into sockets

To kick-start your little heart and maybe sleep a tiny bit more

Oh maybe we should read more into the books that we adore

Perhaps we should drink less vitamin C

And now I’m shouting out in capital letters

drop it doe eyes
You expected my war diaries, but time ran out and I, I let you down
Small thanks now written in French is no shorthand for this thing gave me writer's cramp

Another dream about shapeshifting
Well we move with such elegance, with such grace
With all our dignity just in place

Deer die with their eyes wide open, eyes wide open, eyes wide open
Deer die with their eyes wide open

Drawing tiny little pictures of skeletons to get across the sense of impending doom
And the leaves... major leagues (?) look like the foxes on the hard shoulder
And for some reason I think that I have drifted from the story to the bypass of the town I have visited, so go step back and track for all the sighs we'd ever sighed

Deer die with their eyes wide open, eyes wide open, eyes wide open
Deer die with their eyes wide open

Drawing tiny little pictures of skeletons to get across the sense of impending doom and I am 17 pages through this notebook now and there are little more than pictures of how I see you in an X-ray machine
It's more like a television screen
And you're in a rut, and I know that you know what I mean
And then the realisation hits that not even two dozen choirs could save us now

Turn up on your doorstep
Feeling like roadkill
Tasting like postage stamps
(?)
I could live alone
With everything I ever wrote
Pouring out of your mouth.

my year in lists
You said "send me stationary to make me horny"
So I always write you letters in multicolours
Decorating envelopes for foreplay
Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away
On the back of a natural disaster, fixed with parcel tape and with kids sticking plasters
Nothing says 'I miss you' quite like the poetry carved in your door with a stanley knife

My year in lists
Stomping on your fingers as you're clinging on to the abyss
So put on every winter coat that you've owned since '98
And every midnight since the count turned to another awful day

I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you
I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you
I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you

On your request, I compile a list
Of my top five resolutions for this year (one!)
I declined 'cause I decided that I (two!) did not believe in the new year anymore (three!)
And I must confess that at times like these hopefulness is tantamount to hopelessness (four!)
And I accept that it's time for a change but not in places like this with people like these (five! five! five! five! five!)

My year in lists
Stomping on your fingers as you're clinging on to the abyss
So put on every winter coat that you've owned since '98
And every midnight that the count turned to another awful day

I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you
I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you
I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you.

knee deep at ATP
And every sentence that I spoke began and ended in ellipsis
Each of eight fingers gripping what he wrote, clung on tightly, like parenthesis
And for each correctly used apostrophe, I could feel my heart sink inside my chest in front of me

So, maybe the lining of a winter's coat mightn't be the best place to hide a summer secret
Said every photo that you took that festival got lost in your camera in an insurance scam
And though underexposed, i could see from the quality, his K Records t-shirt and you holding his hand
And I know he took you to the beach, I can tell from how you bite on your cheek, every time the sand falls from your insoles
And when our eyes meet, all that I can read, is "you're the b-side".

I said it's not what you like, it's what you're like as a person,
Well, I need new hobbies, that's one thing for certain
Not what you like, but what you're like as a person,
Well, I need new hobbies, that's one thing for certain.

this is how you spell. “hahaha, we destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics”
I hate the stench of coffee on your breath
And I hate to feel it's warmth against my neck
And what right do you have to have nightmares about me
When all I wanted was to sleep?

We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if...
Cease, and desist!

I left your shallow skin and a note on your kitchen sideboard
It read "I have left you, please never try to find me"
This is no existential crisis, just turn your pain into piety
And then set your alarm clock for 4am the next morning

We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you...
Cease, and desist!

This is how you spell 'HAHAHA, I've destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux-romantics, and I'm pleased"
I'm pleased

You walk in from your mother's balcony
Panda-eyed and freezing cold
You bury yourself in my chest to warm
I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions
And whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille

The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd leave lying all over the place
And every quotation that'd dribble from your mouth like a final, fatal livejournal entry
I know
I am wrong
I am sorry

We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you...
Cease, and desist!

This is how you spell "HAHAHA I've destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics, and I'm pleased"
I'm pleased.

we are all accelerated readers
I was sick in my mouth because of the fear of the scent of the next girlfriend
And there were conversations about what Breakfast Club character you'd be
I'd be the one that dies (no one dies)
Well then what's the point?

You should have built have a statue, and so I did of you
And you were ungrateful, and slightly offended at the dimensions of the thing
You said you looked less like the Venus de Milo, and more like your mother in a straightjacket
I think it's great that you're doing fine now, but enough is enough
And I've had enough

Since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house

You should have built a wall
You should have built a wall

And I'm not Bonnie Tyler, and I'm not Toni Braxton
And this song is not gonna save your relationship
Oh, that's shit
And this sentimental movie marathon has taught us one thing
It's the opposite of true love is as follows-
Reality!

You should have built a wall, not a bridge
(Since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house)
You should have built a wall, not a bridge

Since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house
Since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house.

... and we exhale and roll our eyes in unison
It's bad enough you ever used the word as an adjective
But to suggest we do it in heels is really quite crass
And frankly, we're reasonably practical
And we know the benefits of always doing these things in flats

And I spent the last seven years perched on the edge of my bed
Scratching 'I am incredibly sincere' into my forearm
You should know better

A fifteen year old's a notorious lazy innuendo
(The last man standing is a girl)
Four sweaty boys with guitars tell me NOTHING about my life
And the earth's air pressure gets far greater when I hear you
You should try harder

It takes an educated guess to see I like you a little at best
And if you've come here for the faces then you leave under duress
And you still treat it like a novelty
This pop concert by virtue
And we exhale, and roll our eyes in unison

And we exhale
And we roll our eyes
And we do these things in unison

And woe is me
And woe is you
And woe is us, together

And woe is me
And woe is you
And woe is us, together.

sweet dreams, sweet cheeks
When the smaller picture
is the same as the bigger picture
you know that you're fucked
And you're trading paper cuts for splinters
you're out of luck

Like sharks don't sleep
and I don't take my eyes off you
The architecture's shit
and my cheeks are all ready and bruised

And it hurts as hard as a blow to the head
or a smash to the skull or a knee to your chest
And sweet dreams sweet cheeks
o tomorrow o tomorrow

All these mercy killings have got my conscience spinning over (taking advantage)
And the buildings or neighborhood is lacking in soul character (Psychology montage)
We're burning five story buildings laying man traps at the fire exits
Playing feedback over tan oi systems
You look Desperate! You look Pathetic!

And it hurts as hard as a blow to the head
or a smash to the skull or a knee to your chest x3
And sweet dreams sweet cheeks
o tomorrow o tomorrow

And it hurts as hard as a blow to the head
or a smash to the skull or a knee to your chest
And sweet dreams sweet cheeks
o tomorrow o tomorrow

One blink for yes Two blinks for no.
Sweet Dreams sweet cheeks we leave alone x10

the year punk broke my heart

milburn: well well well

2008-05-10T01:44:31Z

well well well
Well well well look just what the cat dragged in
A foe not a friend in the end but a dealer in sin
I don't want apologies or guarantee you'll do it all again
Oh no no you can play those games no more
Well this time it's different, yeah this time you've pushed too far
Can't you find your dignity, you lost it with your honesty & shame

Well well well look just what the cat dragged in
A cheater, a liar, a schemer, oh where to begin
I don't want apologies or guarantee you'll do it all again

You sold yourself and sold me off down the river
You had us all yeah, an Oscar's on the cards
And I bet you kind of liked it
You'll get your comeuppance and you'll be alone forever and ever and ever and ever oh

Well well well look just what the cat dragged in
A foe not a friend in the end but a dealer in sin
I don't want apologies or guarantee you'll do it all again
* * *

showroom
Watch out!
He's always up to something
Cause he's so devious
And he's so cynical

And it makes me laugh
He's trying so hard to pretend
Acting oh so original
When he's simply following the trends

The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down

He's always saying that he's oh so right
And won't admit when he's wrong
But if I get him on his own tonight
I'm gonna find it hard, cause we don't quite get along

Too much
Sitting in the window
Sipping up your coffee
And advertising yourself

And it makes me laugh
He's trying so hard to deceive
Acting cool and cocky
When there's clearly something up your sleeve

The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down
The book that you read, it is upside down

He's always saying that he's oh so right
And won't admit when he's wrong
But if I get him on his own tonight
I'm gonna find it hard, cause we don't quite get along

Oh it's such a treacherous thing
Little boy laugh and the little boys sing
No when they come-a-calling
You cant can't help falling over, no you cant help falling down

It's evidential that you've not been taught
Oh, you just can't see
That respect is always earnt not bought
So we all bow down to this weeks class clown at the showroom
Yeah, at the showroom
* * *

send in the boys
He had her down in the cellar with a knife pointing at her throat
He wouldn't let her go oh no, he wouldn't ler her go
She kicked and screamed
Someone heard through the walls from next door
'What's the crack? what's the score?'
Next door neighbour gave a call
No one answered, so the boys are coming
The boys are coming for you

They'll take you on a holiday
Maybe to the seaside, maybe they'll just give you away
They'll drop you off and say goodbye
You're looking pretty dangerous
You're looking pretty dangerous tonight
And nobody knows just quite what you will do next
So we will send in the boys, the boys are coming for you

Coppers came heavy handed
Closed the street and demanded us to stay at home today
Oh you must stay at home today
Calm him down, reassure him
Leave the girl this is stupid, hold your hands up
We'll get you through this, yeah we'll get you through this
So the boys are coming, the boys are coming for you

They'll take you on a holiday
Maybe to the seaside, maybe they'll just give you away
They'll drop you off and say goodbye
You're looking pretty dangerous
You're looking pretty dangerous tonight
And nobody knows just quite what you will do next
So we will send in the boys, the boys are coming for you
* * *

what about next time?

You say that you dont know,
But i think you do,
There's clearly something wrong,
There's clearly something wrong with you.

I really do not mean to pry,
But this just seems so silly,
How can the truth become a lie,
Just so it means you're winning

(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
I can see it in your eyes,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
You cant shy away,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
Or cover up you misdemeanours with anything you say,

When you want you know you can be as good as gold,
But try telling that to the bloke who owns the phone that you've just stole,

I try to say you're doing wrong,
But you choose to ignore me,
You say you dont need anyone,
But i know a different story,

(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
I can see it in your eyes,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
You cant shy away,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
Or cover up you misdemeanours with anything you say,

(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
I can see it in your eyes,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
You cant shy away,
(You don't know what you're doing wrong)
Or cover up you misdemeanours and it's not your fault because if no-one got hurt what's all the fuss about you say,

But what about next time?

(Oh you don't know what he's doing wrong, oh you don't know)
I can see it in your eyes,
(Oh you don't know what he's doing wrong, oh you don't know)
You can't shy away,
(Oh you don't know what he's doing wrong)

So what about next time?
* * *

lipstick lickin
The lights they start to flicker movin' in the sky
And the lips with their lipstick lickin' seem to pass me by, oh my
The big boy with the headlight glare says we're tellin' lies
And I know we're in for it
When I see my good friend Johnny go and smack him right between the eyes
But the thoughts of you in my mind knows I'm never gonna go wrong
Cause you and me both, we're singing the same song
I can tell by the look in your eye that we're never gonna go wrong
We'll go on and on and on...

The big boy with the headlight glare says we're tellin' lies
And I know were in for it
When I see my good friend Johnny go and smack him right between the eyes

But the thoughts of you in my mind knows I'm never gonna go wrong
Cause you and me both, we're singing the same song
I can tell by the look in your eye that we're never gonna go wrong
We'll go on and on and on...

But the thoughts of you in my mind knows I'm never gonna go wrong
Cause you and me both, we're singing the same song
I can tell by the look in your eye that we're never gonna go wrong
We'll go on and on and on...
* * *

cheshire cat smile

Oh how your mind's not on it
Pass me a book and I'll read you a sonnet, girl
Walls go up and guards come down
He's bangin' on the door thinkin' "Where the fuck is she now?"
So open your mouth and stick to your guns
You've gotta realise that she's indifferent
Woah oh ah oh what's your name?
Just won't learn, here we go again

So it has come to an end, things haven't changed
You're still lookin' rough my friend
Things get broken, things come clear
If you wanted to leave so much then why are you still here?

So open your mouth and stick to your guns
You've gotta realise that she's indifferent
Woah oh ah oh what's your name?
Just won't learn, here we go again

So open your mouth and stick to your guns
You've gotta realise that she's indifferent
Woah oh ah oh what's your name?
Just won't learn, here we go again
* * *

stockholm syndrome
Welcome, to the world of fake reality
Where you can never believe what you hear or believe what you see
It’s like the coliseum of the annual games
With the Roman Emperor being entertained
A flick of the wrists that will seal your fate
A flick of the wrists that will seal your fate

A flick of the wrist and you’re through
And there’s no telling what they might do
Now they’ve captured your soul
Oh you’re under control
They’ve captured your soul
And they won’t give it back ’till you plead

Setting agendas and fashions which must be obeyed
(You must obey it, you must obey it)
With their stories and lies they decide, the way you’re portrayed

You only see what they want you to see and nothing else
You only see what they want you to see and nothing else

A flick of the wrist and you’ve through
And there’s no telling what they might do
Now they’ve captured your soul
Oh your under control
They’ve captured your soul
And they won’t give it back ’till you plead

Nothing ever happens
So why are you watching? X3
No, nothing ever happens
So why are you watching!?

They’ve captured your soul
And they won’t give it back
No they won’t give it back
No they won’t give it back
* * *

storm in a teacup
Yeah she's been walking down my street
Saluting magpies, avoiding cracks at her feet
Oh be careful, they can break your back you know

And that superstition don't count for much
It's all in your head and not in your touch
If it's working, I´ll reconsider

So what you crying for?
You're a big girl now, no misters come to get ya
You've been trying
But you don't know how, is it cos they never let ya?

No, looks like it's all too much
Your ears are burning, they're talking about you
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!

She don't need no excuse or alibi
No explanation, to grab hold of your eye
You wouldn't even need to know her name

But I just can't work her out at all
She sends me round the bend, she drives me up the wall
But it's worth it, I know she means well

So what you crying for?
You're a big girl now, no misters going to get ya
You've been trying
But you don't know how, is it cos they never let ya?

No, looks like it's all too much
Your ears are burning, they're talking about you
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!

So what you crying for?
You're a big girl now
You've been trying
But you don't know how

No, looks like it's all too much
Your ears are burning, they're talking about you
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!
I know, yeah I know, oh!
* * *

last bus
Alright, I’ve had enough
I want to go home now
Tonight, I’ve had too much
And I start to talk funny
And when, I’ve had enough
I say some things I might, regret, that make me blush
When I wake in the morning

So I’ll see you when I see you
Yeah I’ll see you again
And if I don’t get the chance to at least shake your hand
Then I wish you good luck, hope it all goes to plan so
I’ll see you around

Come on, we’ll get the bus
If we leave pretty soon now
I can’t go to the club
‘Cause I’ve not got much money

So I’ll see you when I see you
Yeah I’ll see you again
And if I don’t get the chance to at least shake your hand
Then I wish you good luck, hope it all goes to plan so
I’ll see you around
* * *

brewster
Where are you going now, our Davey?
Don't be late now, our Davey
And all his friends say "Why do you act that way?"
But all the boys say "You coming out to play?"
And all the pretty girls they're singing
La de da, de da de, da de da
Davey boy is such a pretty little boy
But don't you think about your mother, all alone?
She's waiting for your call
She's waiting, she's tired, she's bored
So give her a call, a call

He gets it all from his father's blood,
Who used to be a casual, as casual as they come
Now he's gone to live in Liverpool
Yeah, Davey does whatever Davey see's
He'll give you a good kicking and he'll bring you down to your knees
If you don't believe in what he does

And all his friends say "Why do you act that way?"
But all the boys say "You coming out to play?"
And all the pretty girls they're singing
La de da, de da de, da de da
Davey boy is such a pretty little boy
But don't you think about your mother, all alone?
She's waiting for your call
she's waiting, she's tired, singing
La de da, de da de, da de da
Davey boy has found a brand-new toy
He's often playing in the rubbish bins, smashing all the windows in
Fighting in car parks and he's fucking up the flat he calls home
Why don't you go home?
* * *

what you could have won
It's closing time and it's getting late
Can you fetch my coat cause I don't feel too great... anymore
But I want to stay
Don't you want to stay as well?
I don't think that you do
I've got this funny feeling that you don't feel like I do
This conversation's just passing you by
I know it, I can see it in your eyes

You've had one too many, low and behold
You're telling the secrets that can't be told
It feels so special, it feels so right
But then you knock me back and I fall
I fall to the floor

And all he wanted was a kiss
All he wanted was a chance tonight

I'm walking home, I'm pissed and I'm frozen
My minds being warmed up by that little token of you
In your little way
But they're sleeping in your today
And now beeps the phone
I fumble round to answer but I end up with it on hold
Late night taxis keep passing me by
I feel sick and look to the sky

I've had one too many, low and behold
The late night lovers stay out in the cold
I ring your number and feel so bold
You kick me into touch and I fall to the floor

And all he wanted was a kiss
All he wanted was a chance tonight

And yeah your ignorance was bliss
Your ignorance was paradise
Just give him a chance
Just give him a sign or something
Tell him what you want
Cause before too long he'll find somebody else
It's then that you'll know you want him more
You call his name and he doesn't respond
He knocks you back and you fall

You're not just a number
Upon a computer
Or a waiting list

You're not just a number
Upon a computer

Or a shopping list
* * *

roll out the barrel
Bitches and glances
Rough romances
I'm sorry if I caught your eye
What is she wearing?
That's a bit daring!
Oh please put away those thunderous thighs...

Do you see what I see?
He's looking straight at me as if I've done something wrong
And I looked at his missus
High heels, pink lipstick
Won't be for very long
Oh I won't be for very long

But I'm alright they all cried
As they stumble down the stairs
I'm just finding no inhibitions
No rhyhthm worries or cares
And you're unstoppable now
Moving on the dancefloor
You're unstoppable the world is at your feet if only for tonight

I was just passing you dancing
You asked me to walk to the floor
Where are we going?
Stop tooing and frowing
Don't ask me cos I don't know
You tried to control her
I can't control her
Mascara runs down her cheek
Call 'em a bastards
Oh when plastered they'll be back together next week
By the end of next week

But I'm alright they all cried
As they stumble down the stairs
I'm just finding no inhibitions
No rhyhthm worries or cares
And you're unstoppable now
Moving on the dancefloor
You're unstoppable the world is at your feet if only for tonight
If only for tonight

Ooooh no
When they've had too much
Everybody wants her
Everybody wants him
Oh just a faintest touch
The bouncers shout to the screams on top of the bar
And the crowd disappears as the police arrive
And throw the thugs in the back of the car
Yea it all comes part of the package
Front row viewing at no extra cost
Just fill 'em up with the barrel
Now you've lit the fuse so watch the fireworks go ooon

Roll out the barrell
Bring out the barrell
Roll out the barrell
Don't bring out the barrell now

(repeat)
* * *

good shoes: think before you speak

2008-05-09T17:30:39Z

nazanin
All of my insecurities
Are summed up
When you walk into my room.
* * *

the photos on my wall
The photos on my wall
The glow of the off switch
It's so good to hear your voice
As a stolen guitar falls

I don't think before I speak
I bread you heart

Just waiting for your turn to speak
Everyone's got an opinion
I stair and nod my head
And leave straight when it finishes

I think I could do better
So arrogant

You read and it makes no sense
don't understand a single word he says
my head hurts from being on the phone
and my ears are ringing from the night before

I don't think before I speak
I break you heart
I think I could do better
So arrogant
* * *

morden
You can go and eat your chinese food over
Drunken fools singing 80's tunes
They'll be singing out of tune saying
Get the foreigners out of my area

A skinhead in a burberry coat
This is not the sort of place you want to take your kids to
Fifty pound shops
And nothing left to inspire me in

Morden

Starring at the government not noticing the queen
A wilkinson's and a kfc
Is this everything you need for a cultured city?
Or is this everything you need to promote burglary

You don't get this in the country side
A teenager coming at you with a knife
Oh but you do
There must be something wrong with our society or is it

Morden

I read the news today
A youth killed himself in a horrible way
He hung himself
From the local supermarket car park
Walking down canon hill lane
I saw the flowers lay where a car crash took place
A drug dealer crashed into a chicane
It sort of sums up my area in

Morden
* * *

all in my head
I'm a talented artist but my heart's not in it
I'm a good shag but I find nobody fit
I play in a band but I've got no talent
I spit and I drawl but I just don't change a thing

It's all in my head
All my hopes and my fears
And I lay it all out
For you all to see and it's
All in my head

I work nine to five but I want to get out
I watch the TV but I want to be an inspiration
I write it all down but nobody reads
You never will and it's so obscene
* * *

never meant to hurt you
Do you ever feel like you've broken someone's heart, I do
Do you ever, feel like you were lying from the start, I do
And you twist and turn, you say a fucking bore and I say
Do you ever feel like you've broken someone heart

Met a girl on a plane to Canada
Drinking wine, watching maid in Manhattan
My friends are getting drunk
I think that Joel threw up
Things were so much better when we were young

I, I never meant to hurt you
You, you never knew I didn't love you
I hope your fine
The fault is mine
I'm just sorry that i'm such a typical man

Do you ever feel like you've broken someone's heart, I do
Do you ever, feel like you were lying from the start, I do
And you twist and turn, you say a fucking bore and I say
Do you ever feel like you've broken someone heart

Met a girl on a plane to Canada
All black hair and floral dress patterns
She wore too much top shop
I'm just so arrogant
People said we looked like the perfect couple

I, I never knew you were so insecure
You, you never knew that I was too
Said you were in love
I thought I didn't give a fuck
I don't think i've ever loved anyone

I never meant to hurt you.
* * *

blue eyes
I was staring at her
Blue eyes
She was lying there
Naked to the world
As I say the strangest things

And she turns me on and she turns me off
And she speeds me up and she slows me down
And everybody here oh so wants her
But all I try and do is just ignore her

Everybody says the same, same things
And thinks they're just so, so original
But you just don't say the same thing

And she turns me on and she turns me off
And she speeds me up and she slows me down
And everybody here oh so wants her
But all I try and do is just ignore her
And you chews me up and she spits me out
And you talk so sweet but ignore me
And your oh so quiet just, just trying to hide it
* * *

sophia
Ssophia looked at me and she just said that,
things were so different when we first met
the strange dancing boy at the camden barfly talking to strangers in the middle of the night

as everybody brushes up on the dancefloor
all the pretty girls are screaming out for more
as the boy with no top on plays the guitar
all the pretty girls are screaming take off your pants

if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart
and if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart

as everybody stares at the boy on the stage I get kicked out for looking under age
hitting pots and pans as I nod my head listenin to djs playing shit records

if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart
and if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart

if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart
if you go back to where we first met it will only break your heart
* * *

we are not the same
I suffer you so easily
We disagree
I, I think it's good to disagree
You are always saying that

We are not the same
And it's making things so difficult

I suffer you because you're beautiful
You're so beautiful
I don't agree with your opinions
About
Politics, religion or anything

We are not the same
And it's making things so difficult
* * *

small town girl
Read a story about a small town girl
Who came from humble beginnings
To just do oh so well
She used to go to Raynes Park High School
But now she lives in Hollywood
Up in those there hills

It's okay and it's alright
But she says everything keeps going
Oh so wrong in my life
And I say, you've got it all, you've got it made
But she says, money honey, darling
Just can't buy me everything
And I say everything's okay
Everything's alright

I've tried everything I possibly can
She said, I bet all I was, was just a shag
She say's I'm fed up with just bein' friends
But I said that's the end of the story
That's just the way it is

If you ask me for my secrets
I'll never tell
Because you might like what I've got to say
* * *

in he city
The story started and it ended so quick
Like Jack and Jill but with heroin
Disco lights and a glint in the eye of
Dancing girls at the Candybox night

Queuing up for something under-priced
Working weekends just to pay for drugs
This little story keeps repeating itself
Reading fashion mags to look at the girls

In the city
In the city tonight
You live by the sword
But you die by the knife

I want it all, I want it all for me
These things in life, they just don't come for free
Converse boots and a look on her face
That says if you've got the money then I'm yours tonight
* * *

things to make and do
I'm loosing all my memories
I'm standing close to an edge
I'm at a loss for conversation
with people i've never met

I stop traffic

I travel on public transport
I don't agree with cars
Private education makes me sick
whatever happened to equality

And I got a tan from my tv

Do you believe everything you told?
I don't! Do you?
I want things to make and do
* * *

everybody's talking
He said to me
You really should think about it
I said to him
We've already thought about it
She said to me oh you've got such great names
I thought to myself does it really matter

Everybody's talking about

ice age
I'm the one who makes mistakes
I'm the one who cant say sorry
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm lazy

I'm the one who says goodbye
I'm the one who doesn't have the time
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm lazy

I want to be the one who can dance about
Getting drunk
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm far too lazy

I'm the one who says goodbye
I'm the one who doesn't have the time
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm lazy

I say, Ice Age
Reading,
Full frontal nudity and
I say, I say
Reading,
Full frontal nudity and

I'm the one who says goodbye
I'm the one who doesn't have the time
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm lazy

I'm the one who says goodbye
I'm the one who doesn't have the time
I get bored far too easily and
I watch TV cos I'm lazy

I say, Ice Age
Reading,
Full frontal nudity and
I say, I say
Reading,
Full frontal nudity and

Be close to the
Age and now
Be close to the
Age and now
Be close to the
Age and now
Be closer to the
* * *

wait
wait ive got something to say and
wait i think there is something going wrong

i know i know i know i know but then again i really really dont know

wait stop look listen to what ive got to say everything around here seems to be going your way i know i know i know i know but then again i really just dont care
two time one two times one he shouted into his phone
you just dont understand a thing i wish things had started before they finished

wait stop look listen to what i got to say
everything thats happened recently has been your mistake
i dont think that you could be anymore arrogant
im in control no im in control but then again ive lost all of my control

two time one two times one he shouted into his phone
you just dont understand a thing i wish things had started before they finished

two time one two times one he shouted into his phone
you just dont understand a thing i wish things had started before they finished
* * *

the pipettes: we are the pipettes

2008-05-09T04:23:37Z

we are the pipettes
Take us, Take us to your planet
We've got enough we can't stand it
give us a sound and we'll can it,
Can it can it can it
We've taken all we can manage
Just say the word and we'll ban it
Make us a deal and we'll land it and we'll brand it

We are the Pipettes
And we've got no regrets
If you haven't noticed yet
We're the prettiest girls you've ever met
We are the Pipettes
We will drop you in our nets
When you're crying in your bed
You'll hope we haven't finished with you yet

Take us
Take us to your planet
Give us a mind and we'll scan it
Sell us a ship and we'll man it
Cos we mean it

Throw us a love we've been handed
Lend us a film are we candid?
Give us the wheel
Make us a meal
Do you know how I feel?

We are the Pipettes
And we've got no regrets
If you haven't noticed yet
We're the prettiest girls you've ever met
We are the Pipettes
We will drop you in our nets
When you're crying in your beds
You'll hope we haven't finished with you

We are the Pipettes
And we've got no regrets
If you haven't noticed yet
We're the prettiest girls you've ever met
We are the Pipettes
We will drop you in our nets
When you're crying in your beds
You'll hope we haven't finished with you yeah
We haven't finished with you yeah
We haven't finished with you yeah
We haven't finished with you yet
* * *

pull shapes
Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3

Pull Shapes,
I like to Disco
I like to Rock n' Roll
Well I like to Hip-Hop
We can do it all, just don't let the music stop

Pull Shapes,
I lead with my left hand
I stomp with my right foot
Well I just wanna freak out
I just wanna move, I don't care what the song's about

Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3

Pull Shapes,
Is there a drumbeat?
Pull Shapes
And is the bass beat?
Pull Shapes
Then the rhythm is complete

Well get up on the floor, its time for you to move your feet

Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3

What do you do when the music stops?
What do you do when the music stops?
What do you do when the music stops?
What do you do when the music stops?

Pull Shapes
Clap your hands if you want some more,
Pull Shapes
Clap your hands if you want some more,
Pull Shapes
Clap your hands if you want some more,
Pull Shapes
Clap your hands if you want some more,

Clap your hands if you want some more,
Clap your hands if you want some more,

Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3
Pull Shapes

Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Pull Shapes
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
Pull Shapes
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
Pull Shapes
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3
Pull Shapes
* * *

why did you stay
You used to tell me that you love me everyday
(I didn't know what to say)
But there was never any doubt I always knew
That to me you said true

But my heart never could be so committed
So are my strange passions you permitted

Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay when I treated you that way?

I was so cruel
(He was so kind)
Why did I feel I had to leave you behind?
(But he was so sweet)
Oh yeah
Well I've had just about enough of sweet

Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay when I treated you that way?

Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
Why did you stay?
What did you say?
Why did you stay with me?
* * *

dirty mind
He's got a dirty mind, just don't know what you're gonna find

On her way from the school
She saw him, she saw him
In a second she knew
She wanted him, oh she wanted him
There was no trace on him
Of filth, grime or dirt
An overwhelming urge
To smile laugh and flirt

There she goes with a twinkle in her eye
Don't take a genius to understand the reason why

He's got a dirty mind, just don't know what you're gonna find

This girl he thought she was
Living in a dream
It's just that he was
Exceptionally clean
All the boys that she, that she had known before
Avoided hygiene
Around at his house
You could eat off the floor
Which was slightly unnerving

Hygeine boy, oh what am I to do
I feel positively filthy standing next to you

He's got a dirty mind, just don't know what you're gonna find

She got to know his mind intimately
She was surprised to find
Something of an anomaly
You see this perfect boy
Wasn't quite so pristine
He had ideas that would (He had ideas that could)
Make the devil Scream

Dirty mind, don't know what you're gonna find
He's got a dirty mind, just don't know what you're gonna find
* * *

it hurts to see you dance so well
Half past one on the dance-floor,
and my thoughts have turned to murder,
can't these strangers feel my eyes, burning into them,
they know that i wanna kill them,

'cos i can't get over you,
and i can see them looking at you,
and i just can't, can't get over you,
it hurts to see you dance so well,

Quater to two on the dance-floor,
but my feet won't dance no more,
Got no spirit for dancing,
since you walked right out the door,
now all my moves are floored,

'cos i cant get over you,
and i can see them dancing up to you,
and i just can't, can't get over you,
hurts to see you looking so fine,
you it hurts to see you dance so well,

I, I remember the times that we kissed,
and the beats my heart missed,
but our feet never missed a beat,
when we were dancing cheek to cheek,
and you,you, you knew all the best moves,
and the funkiest grooves,
but you never knew,
how much i was in love with you,

and now it's two o'clock on the dance-floor,
and i'm going home,
i'm going home,
i'm going home alone
* * *

judy
I knew a girl and her name was Judy
She used to do things I thought were rude
But I never said anything to her face,
'Cuz my friends I thought she'd kick my arse all over the place.
Used to think she was kinda cool (kinda cool)
I saw her walking all around the school (around the school)
All the older boys would stop and turn their heads,
All the older girls wished that she was dead.

Judy, whatcha gonna do?
When you're older and no one wants to know ya?
I will look out for you,
If you will look out for me
I know I'm not as hard as you
But I think I can see right through you,

Now me and Judy we're the best of pals (best of pals),
She took me dancing to the early hours (early hours)
And showed me things I've never seen
Mum always asked me where I'd been
when I'm with,

Judy, whatcha gonna do?
When you're older and no one wants to know ya?
I will look out for you,
If you will look out for me
I know I'm not as hard as you
But I think I can see right through you,

When you go,
Home at night,
Are you still looking,
For a fight?
You know you're mum,
Is not that mean,
But still you want to,
Rip out her spleen.

Judy, whatcha gonna do?
When you're older and no one wants to know ya?
I will look out for you,
If you will look out for me
I know I'm not as hard as you
But I think I can see right through you,

ooooh
ooooh

What's in your head?
* * *

a winters sky
She was cold and all alone
Hadn't been there long
And didn't know what to say
So she sat in the corner of the room
She figured if she didn't move
Noone would notice her

Underneath a winter's sky
Her eyes were bright
Tonight would be her night

A boy, he spotted her from afar
He too understood and felt her pain
Unsure of what to do
And lacking an imagination
He said hello

Underneath a winter's sky
Her eyes were bright
Tonight he finds her
Underneath a winter's moon
The last we saw of her, it came too soon

Underneath a winter's sky
Her eyes were bright
Tonight he finds her
Underneath a winter's moon
The last we saw of her, it came too soon
* * *

your kisses are wasted on me
Your kisses are wasted on me (Boy)
Can you see we're through? (Boy)
I don't love you don't make me smile
For a while (Boy)
Get out of my face (Boy)
I'm gonna catch a chase some other guy
Who I might like

And you might cry half the time (And you don't know it, no you don't know it)
And you might try to hold my hand again (no you don't know it)

Your kisses are wasted on me (Boy)
You better hear me clear (Boy)
I want you out of here
Don't send me wild
You're just a child

And you might cry half the time (And you don't know it, no you don't know it)
And you might try to hold my hand again (and you don't know it, no you don't know it)
And you might cry for some time (you still don't know it)
* * *

tell me what you want
Our eyes meet all the time
Your eyes permanent in my
Ooooh, tell me what, tell me what you want
Tell me what, tell me what you want

You've been looking at me for days
I don't go for secret games
Ooooh, tell me what, tell me what you want
Tell me what, tell me what you want

I need some kind of honest man
So come and talk to me
If that's your plan
You could be mine

If you want me baby that's fine
But don't keep up this silent
Ooooh, tell me what, tell me what you want
Tell me what, tell me what you want

I need some kind of honest man
So come and talk to me
If that's your plan
You could be mine

Ooooh, tell me what, tell me what you want
Tell me what, tell me what you want

You could be mine
Tell me what, tell me what you want

You could be mine...
* * *

because it's not love
I don't want to fall in love
I don't want to see the stars up above in the sky
I just wanna catch your eye
I don't want to be wined and dined
I just want to bump and grind with you here tonight
Because you move so right

And we Dance (Dance)
And we move a little closer
Dance (Dance)
Oh yeah with that triple motion
Dance (Dance)
And we move a little closer
Touch a little tighter
Eyes a little brighter

Because it's not love
But it's still a feeling
No it's not love
But my body's reeling
To move closer next to you

I don't want to hold your hand
I don't want to go walking in the sand every day
So won't you come out to play
And I don't care what people say
I don't care what your friends will think anyhow
'cos you've got me here right now.

And we Dance (Dance)
And we move a little closer
Dance (Dance)
Oh yeah with that triple motion
Dance (Dance)
And we move a little closer
Touch a little tighter
Eyes a little brighter

Because it's not love
But it's still a feeling
No it's not love
But my body's reeling
To move closer next to you
To move closer next to you
To move closer next to you
To move closer next to you
To move closer next to you
* * *

sex
He said we could talk about gossip
We could talk about lies
He said we could talk about rumours
We could do whatever i like
Then he said 'lets stop with all the talking, w
Hy not try something new? Because there's no need for any talking in what wer'e about to do'

Rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)
Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head

You know im all for conversation, im really quite romantic you know,
Why not get right to the point, its not that often we are left alone
No offence, when you get going you really can be quite a bore, now dont take this the wrong
Way, but my heels are gettting sore

Rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)
Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head
Oh rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)
Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head
Rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)
Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head

We spent a winter and a spring, just listening not talking, come weather, rain or shine,
No-one ever told you then, but conversations in my head helped me to pass the time

Oh rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)

Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head

Rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)

Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head
Oh rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)

Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head
Rest, your pretty head, you pretty head
(just rest, just rest, just rest your pretty head)
Dont trouble your pretty head, your pretty head
* * *

one night stand
I left you alone,
At four in the morning, not a stitch to wear
‘Cause you ignored my warning

(ooh sha la la la la, ooh sha la la)
But I was wrong
Now I’m telling you
Baby as a I sing this song

I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
If you think that this is cruel,
Then you should see what my friends do,
I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
Leave me alone, you’re just a one night stand

I saw you across a crowded room.
You smiled at me and made my heart go boom
Did the scoresheet, and saw a seven
So I walked up to you and said:
“Baby did it hurt when you fell from heaven?”

I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
If you think that this is cruel,
Then you should see what my friends do,
I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
Leave me alone, you’re just a one night stand
You’re just a one night stand (x2)

I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
If you think that this is cruel,
Then you should see what my friends do,
I (I) don’t (don’t) love (love) you (you)
Leave me alone, you’re just a one night stand to me
* * *

abc
He knows all about the movements of the planets
But he don't know how to move me
He knows about the sonic spectrum damnit
But he don't know if it's groovy

He knows about
A-B-C-1-2-3-X-Y-Z
But he don't know about X-T-C
A-B-C-1-2-D-Even I
Ain't in any of his categories

Kind of tall and kind of shy
He's always asking me why
He's always got his head in a book
He doesn't care how I look

He cares about
A-B-C-1-2-3-X-Y-Z
But he don't know about X-T-C
A-B-C-1-2-D-Even I
Ain't in any of his categories

He's the kind of guy
who knows just what he knows
He's the kind of guy
who oh-oh-oo-oh-oh-oh

A-B-C-1-2-3-X-Y-Z
But he don't know about X-T-C
A-B-C-1-2-D-Even I
Ain't in any of his categories
A-B-C-1-2-3-X-Y-Z
But he don't know about X-T-C
A-B-C-1-2-D-Even I
Ain't in any of his categories
* * *

i love you
There used to be a lot of things
That I didn’t know
And although they still exist
I try not to let them show
But I think that now you’ve seen me
For my true colours
I’m sure you recognise i’m more stupid than the others

But I love you
Oh I love you
And I will love you
'Till the day I die
There will never be a time when we have to say good-bye

I've seen you try to laugh at all of my bad jokes
And I’ve cooked you seven meals six of them one on which you've choked
But it has taken me a while
To get used to this new feeling
When I woke up with a smile
Oh, I nearly started screaming

That I love you
Oh I love you
And I will love you
'Till the day I die
There will never be a time when we have to say good-bye

Because I love you
Oh I love you
And I will love you
'Till the day I die
There will never be a time when we have to say good-bye
Never be a time when we have to say good-bye
There will never be a time when we have to say good-bye
Because I love you
* * *

the long blondes: somebody to drive you home

2008-04-27T11:29:04Z

lust in the movies
A svelte young man, eighteen lovers to his name.
Well if the rumours are true then eighteen lovers came crawling back again.
I don't feel well.
I've got this rattling in my chest.
My doctor said that I should give it up because I'm clinically obsessed.

I know you think you're in the movies.
You're in the movies that don't wanna know me.
Well I know all about fear and desire, I know all about lust et cetera.

Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart.

A sweet young girl, dressed to the nines in Cacharel.
Oh, under the weather my heels click together, and following her is hell.
I feel quite ill.
I've got this rattling in my chest.
My doctor said that I should give it up, I need to get some rest.

Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart.

So never, neve, never try to tell me it's a pleasure being alone.
All I have here with me are the records and the books that I own.

Nag, nag, nag.
Nag, nag, nag.
Nag, nag, nag.
Nag, nag, nag.

Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karenina, Arlene Dahl.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart.
I just want to be a sweetheart
* * *

once and never again
19. you're only 19 for God's sake,
Oh, you don't need a boyfriend.
19. you're only 19 for God's sake,
Oh, you don't need a boyfriend.

Look what he's made you do to your arm again,
He said he'd come round but he's gone out with his friends,
And I know how it feels to be your age
and feel the world is caving in.

Another drama by the kitchen sink tonight,
You said you'd cut yourself whilst washing up the knives,
Another week off school won't do you any good,
And I know how it feels to be your age.

19. you're only 19 for God's sake,
Oh, you don't need a boyfriend.
19. you're only 19 for God's sake,
Oh, you don't need a boyfriend.

Come back with me, and find out what you really want,
Come home with me you'll only have to do it once,
'cause I know what it feels like to be your age,
You only have to do it once,
And never again.

Another drama by the kitchen sink tonight,
You said you'd cut yourself whilst washing up the knives,
Another week off school won't do you any good,
And I know how it feels to be your age.

You know I'm not so young,
I spend an hour getting ready every day,
And still I end up looking more or less the same,
But I could show you,
a thing or two.

Oh, I could show you the ropes,
Yes I could show you the ropes,
And I would cut my hair for you,
'Cause I know how it feels.

I know how it feels to be your age,
I know how it feels to be your age,
Oh, how I'd love to feel a girl your age,
Your age,
Once and never again
* * *

only lovers left alive
I wouldn't bother to look if I was sure that you were happy together
But I've seen the way she covers her chest up as if it was a national treasure
Looks are the first weapon
Charm is the second
I reckon that she doesn't have much of either
You don't need her
It's better that you come and see about me.

No, I won't get bored and I won't get tired
I've already spent years at the back of the line
So another six months won't make a difference to me now
Soon enough we'll be the
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Only lovers, only lovers left alive

All the men came back from six years' fighting
To the beige row of houses and the prospect of spending
Their Saturday nights in
From here to eternity
And it wasn't that summer their wives didn't love them
They had the run of the house
And with nothing to do on a night
One thing led to something else.

No, I won't get bored and I won't get tired
I've already spent years at the back of the line
So another six months won't make a difference to me now
Soon enough we'll be the
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Only lovers, only lovers left alive

Behind your back in the supermarket
She's got his number and she's not afraid to use it
I want to know, exactly what you, exactly what you intend to do about it
Because you can't keep your eye on her all the time
And you can't trust a word that she says any more

Can't trust a word that she says any more
Can't trust a word that she says any more

No, I won't get bored and I won't get tired
I've already spent years at the back of the line
So another six months won't make a difference to me now
Don't tell me you'll walk past salvation
I have to take it anyway
Can I get it on credit or something?
Godspeed the day, godspeed the day when we're the
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Only lovers, only lovers left alive
Left alive
Left alive
* * *

giddy stratospheres
You're pretty, oh so pretty
why waste your time just sitting
here a-listening to this dead-eye bitch?

do nothing, eat your chocolate,
drink your wine, she won't let you
make your way across her empire line!

what's eating you is a mystery
but go home with her one more time
and you know you'll be history

watch movies with the lights on
sit still; keep her tights on
do you see this once and timeless week?
go on, say something clever
just act(s) it, she will never
take you higher than her attic room

what's eating you is a mystery
but go home with her one more time
and you know you'll be history

she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!
she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!

is she a femme fatale?
that's what she wants you to think
she'll never lead him astray
but it's the best she can do
but is she going away?
no, she'll always be here,
waiting for you
back here on earth

your mother call your mother
even she's surprised that this is how you want to spend your nights indoors
you never call too often. what's up?
have forgotten what it's like to have her on all fours?

what's eating you is a mystery,
but go home with her one more time
and you know you'll be history..

she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!
she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!

is she a femme fatale?
that's what she wants you to think
she'll never lead him astray!
but it's the best she can do
but is she going away?
no, she'll always be here,
waiting for you
back here on earth

there's a train at
the station
it's leaving
this morning
it'll take you
away from
this girl that's
so boring

don't turn around just walk away
don't turn around just walk away
don't turn around JUST WALK AWAY

she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!
she'll never take you to giddy stratospheres that come from your fears!

is she a femme fatale?
that's what she wants you to think
she'll never lead him astray!
but it's the best she can do
but is she going away?
no, she'll always be here,
waiting for you
back here on earth
* * *

heaven help the new girl
No more nights in the flat
In the flat above the pet shop
Hiding every picture of your boyfriend
He never has to go behind my back again
Because I don’t speak to him now

No more fights in the car,
In the back of his car
A car that never started and the rows they never stopped
He never has to go behind my back again
Because I don’t speak to him now

I say
Heaven help the new girl
If she has to go through what I went through too

Don’t get me wrong
If you want someone
Who's gonna lead you on
He's the one for you
Don’t get me wrong
If you want someone
Who's gonna treat you bad
He's the man
But who wants that anyway

Oh
Heaven help the new girl
If she has to go through what I went through too
Heaven help the new girl
If she has to go through what I went through too

So go
Just go
Because you'll be never 19 again
And I thought I told you before
You don’t need a boyfriend

So go
Just walk
It doesn’t matter if its raining or dark
And if by some strange stroke of luck
I pick you up
then we can drive to the country
Left to ourselves
And (?)

Heaven help the new girl
If she has to go through what I went through too
* * *

in the company of women
In the company of women
That's when I start to worry
What has she got that I might not
I might not

In the company of women
I must have met you
A little bit nervous
and a little bit scared
Oh yeah

I don't need it spelling out to me
I know she's keeping him company
And I can see the signs
He likes her company better than mine Better than mine

She's sponsored by Colgate
She's been sponsored by Desperate Housewives
I'm scared that the difference in our lives
Will give her the start over me

But you don't fall for that ideal you
That's what you told me
You wouldn't lie to my now would you?

I don't need it spelling out to me
I know she's keeping him company
And I can see the signs
He likes her company better than mine Better than mine

I don't need it spelling out to me
I know she's keeping him company
And I can see the signs
He likes her company better than mine

And I don't need telling twice
He's happy and that's nice
But I'm waiting in the wings for you to make your first mistake
So watch out girl!
* * *

separated by motorways
In the pub where we learnt how to talk about bands
You stand all dressed up with your vodka in hand
Oh girl, you’re waiting for a pitiful man

In the pub, at the bar with the old men I am
Alone with a pint of bitter in my hand
For a girl this is not an acceptable plan

Wipe your eyes darling, it’s OK
Meet me on the dual carriage way

Separated by motorways
The A14 and the A1
Separated by motorways
Two lonely girls go on the run

I heard from the boys you were down on your knees last night
They were worried you were looking a sight
Oh girl you’re too wonderful

At work locked away in the north where
I can’t escape from the people and the records I hate
No wonder I’m always 15 minutes late

Wipe your eyes darling, it’s OK
Meet me on the dual carriage way

Separated by motorways
The A14 and the A1
Separated by motorways
Two lonely girls go on the run

Separated by motorways
The A14 and the A1
Separated by motorways
Two lonely girls go on the run
Two lonely girls go on the run
Two lonely girls go on the run
* * *

you could have both
I retire to bed early most nights
You follow me in or you don't
And either way, it's alright
You've been going with her now for seventeen weeks
But that doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me

Just when you're ready to take on the world
Some other girl had to get there first
And it's obvious that you're a man that's after her own heart
But you know where I am
And you know that you could have both

She's away
And you get by without her very well
If I'm around
You get by without her even better

I don't kid myself about happy endings
I'm too old for that now
Out on my doorstep, your lip burst and bleeding
Well, that was a crash course for me

You acted the film star while you were still spoken for
It didn't look rosy for me
But I've considered the alternatives
A few degrees of separation can't be that bad

Just when you're ready to take on the world
Some other girl had to get there first
And it's obvious that you're a man that's after her own heart
But you know where I am
And you know that you could have both
I wanted the world
But some other girl had to get there first
And it's obvious that you're a man that's after her own heart
But you know where I am
So stop!

"I feel like C.C. Baxter in Wilder's 'Apartment',
That particular arrangement just came out of the blue
And who was it who sang 'I know that you love one
So why can't you love two?'
I was in full-time education when I got scared of the future
And I've only got a job so I don't disappoint my mother
It's like I've painted myself into a social corner
Well, that's what happens when you listen to
Saint Scott Walker
On headphones
On the bus.
What about us? What about us?
My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?'
My friends come round and they ask me 'What about us?'
You know that I, I don't kid myself about happy endings
I'm too old for all that now
But you don't have to worry that much about the future
And it's not as if you ever did before
Because you'll always have everything just as you want it
And there'll always be a phone to ring at three in the morning
And you'll always have someone who'll drive you home
Yes, you'll always have someone, someone to drive you home.
Someone to drive you home."

Just when you're ready to take on the world
Some other girl had to get there first
And it's obvious that you're a man that's after her own heart
But you know where I am
And you know what I want
And I know I'll never have you completely alone
So I'm trying to draw up a contingency plan
And it's obvious that you're a man that's after her own heart
But you know where I am
And you know that you could have both

You could have both
You could have both
* * *

another weekend without makeup
another weekend without makeup
another evening to myself
well, i guess that i won't be having the time of my life tonight
where do you go when you've finished work?
you should have been home an hour ago
i've got your tea laid out like some kind of fifties housewife

well i'll feed you, but i need you to make a little more effort
i don't like giving you the third degree
i just want what's due to me...

there are wants and there are needs
and they're two very different things
you can love or be in love, again,
they're two very different things,
yes they're two very different things

i want to talk but you're much too tired
you've got a job but if you don't get fired soon
i'll be extremely surprised
where do you go when you've finished work
you should have been back about an hour ago
you've left me fashioning a double bed and acting
like some kind of fifties housewife

you and i, we're different
you and i, we're two very different things
but still i've got you, i've got you under my skin...
* * *

swallow tattoo
Give me a good film noir and a bottle of gin
I'll be happy just to stay inside,
I didn't want to get too involved
But I like how hard you tried.

To my horror,
A former lover told me you've always had a swallow tattoo
Now you tell me it's a sign of devotion
But devotion to who?

Don't think I'm a martyr to the cause
She's got her reasons putting cats amongst the pigeons
But I'd rather just stay indoors.

An antique emblem set in ink
It didn't mean a thing to you,
Now I've been wronged by proxy
Goodbye, happiness, I hardly knew ya.

To my horror,
A former lover told me you've always had a swallow tattoo
Now you tell me it's a sign of devotion
But devotion to who?

You fill me, you fill me
You fill me with inertia
You fill me with inertia
I still want, I still want to jump
I want to jump your bones.

Don't tell her, tell her anything
Because I'm bound to see her later today
And if she can't keep a straight face
Then I'll know.
To my horror,
A former lover told me you've always had a swallow tattoo
Now you tell me it's a sign of devotion
But devotion to who?

I'd rather just stay indoors.
* * *

weekend without makeup
Another weekend without makeup
another evening to myself
well, i guess that i won't be having the time of my life tonight
where do you go when you've finished work?
you should have been home an hour ago
i've got your tea laid out like some kind of fifties housewife

well i'll feed you, but i need you to make a little more effort
i don't like giving you the third degree
i just want what's due to me...

there are wants and there are needs
and they're two very different things
you can love or be in love, again,
they're two very different things,
yes they're two very different things

i want to talk but you're much too tired
you've got a job but if you don't get fired soon
i'll be extremely surprised
where do you go when you've finished work
you should have been back about an hour ago
you've left me fashioning a double bed and acting
like some kind of fifties housewife

you and i, we're different
you and i, we're two very different things
but still i've got you, i've got you under my skin...
* * *

madame ray
Give me a polaroid picture ‘till you fit in my pocket
Now paste it into my heart shaped locket
Eventually I’ll cheat on every man I meet
I know I cant help it

Buy me a drink and I will tell you my name
I’m a rose petal fallen from a mainline train
Always there to touch but just out of reach
I know you can’t help it

.......................(?)-
in the way you write my name
An object of destruction made for Madame Ray
Ooh oh, i’ll be your apprentice
Ooh oh, i’m still in my 20s

Eyes from a portrait of one whose love could see no more,
You cant keep her captive, on your wall

Left New York but drew my outline
On a ticket back to london
Whitewashed all my boyfriends features
Sola rising future pictures

Lie behind a camera past the city music hall,
Madame Ray will sit me high above you all

Left New York but drew my outline
On a record sleeve in brooklyn
Whitewashed three years of existence
Sola rising future pictures

Man let go, he couldn’t keep her
Locks of hair on artist’s scissors
Traces of unseen love rivals
Sola rising into pictures

I am forever being put away
and i am always in reserve (x2)

Always in reserve
Materials indestructible
Forever being put away
Taken for a ride, put on the spot
The locket must go on
I am always in reserve

I am forever being put away
and i am always in reserve (x4)
* * *

a knife for the girls
You gave me a chance at the Palais to dance to prove I'm worth your time,
You gave me a chance to prove I'm more than just an also ran

A knife for the girls who want to come home for just one night,
A knife for the girls who never return your calls

You gave me a chance at the Palais to dance to prove I'm worth your time,
You gave me a chance to prove I'm more than just an also ran

Something happened to change your mind, something happened I don't know why,
And now you reach for my hand and you cut me again
You've got a knife for the girls and a knife for the man
I don't mind seeing your face around, but we can never speak again
(no no no)

A knife for the men who've taken the heat off you this time,
A knife for the men who keep you awake at night
This could be the last time you could say for sure
You know I'm here if you need a girl

Something happened to change your mind, something happened I don't know why,
And now you reach for my hand and you cut me again
You've got a knife for the girls and a knife for the man
I don't mind seeing your face around, but we can never speak again
(no no no)

But in a back room in high heels when you said I was a superstar,
what did you mean, what did you mean?
High heels, high heels, high heels,
Well in a back room in high heels, what did you mean?

Now you reach for my hand and you cut me again,
You've got a knife for the girls and a knife for the man
I don't mind seeing your face around, but we can never speak again

I got my souvenir, I got my souvenir
Well, in a back room in high heels I got my souvenir

My baby doll, don't go to London,
Don't go to London, no no no
Don't go to London,
Don't go to London, no no no
Don't go to London,
Don't go to London, no no no
Don't go to London,
Don't go to London, no no no
* * *

the kooks: konk

2008-04-24T16:01:02Z

see the sun
Oh you can have it all and wrap it in the world
You can have everything
You can have love and lots of other things
To make you think
But when it all comes down to you girl
Yeah no matter what you do
Take a look at yourself and realize
I've been good to you
I've been good to you

Oh no! I didn't mean to say what I did say
All about lovers and how they should lay
That was never for me to say and say
Don't you see now how I pay

I see the sun rising
And all you see is its fall, fall, fall

So come on up
Wasn't it you who said life was like a plastic cup
To be used and then disposed of
Yeah but thats no way to live a life like yours
Don't you see now how i pay

I see the sun rising
And all you see is its fall, fall, fall

For all the times i never never turned away
And now she is there on someone else's arms [x4]
* * *

always where i need to be
Say whatever you want
Oh, I could never judge you
Be whoever comes into your head
Oh, you know I'll take you there
You know I'll take you there

'Cause I'm always where I need to be
And I always though I would end up
with you, eventually
Do dodo do do do do...

Say whatever you want
Oh, I could never judge you
Say whatever comes into your head
Oh, oh you know I just don't care
You know I just don't care

'Cause I'm always where I need to be
Yeah, and I always thought I would end up
with you, eventually
Do dodo do do do do...

I want mine...
I want mine on the sea
Oh let me be, let me be
I want mine on the sea
Let me be, let me be

'Cause I'm always where I,
where I need to be
I-I-I always, always thought...
I would end up with you eventually!

Always where I need to be
* * *

mr. maker
Mr. Maker he's got it made
A beautiful wife and a baby on the way
And his bills are already paid
No need to skimp, no need to save
But all around him, the world grows hard
He thinks to himself, he must have played a lucky card
If he was alone he'd give it all away
To people and things, that he wanted to save

But oh no, it's alright
Mr. Maker, he'll be fine
It's alright, it's OK
Because of the love he gave away
Oh yeah
Oh yeah...

Doesn't stop to think it's because of he
Always doing right, he stays healthy
The girls in the alley won't get a hold of him
He's got no time for that kind of sin
And he, he's not a member of the Catholic Church
The pastor of his town got sent down for dirt
He sees the boys from Sunday school
It's hard to believe what he read in the morning news

But oh no, it's alright
Mr. Maker, he'll be fine
It's all right, it's OK
Because of the love he gave away
Oh yeah
Oh yeah...

Heart beat, stay heavy
Love us all please, stay on your feet
For me, for me
Stay on your feet
For me, for me
Stay on your feet for me

But oh no, it's alright
Mr. Maker, he'll be fine
It's alright, it's OK
Because of the love he gave away
Oh yeah
Oh yeeeeah...
* * *

do yo wanna
An i was hopin
That you had an atlas in your head
So fed up of
The same old man
Theres broken bedrooms and there are broken hands
You were so fed up of the same old broken man

An do you wanna
Do you wanna
Do you wanna make love to me
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna make love to me

Oh i came to tell you
That your my favourite girl
An would u like it if i put u into my world
Theres broken hearts in basements
An broken love on the streets
You were so fed up of it all always involving me

But do you wanna
Do you wanna
Do you wanna make love to me
I know you wanna
I know you wanna
I know you wanna make love to me

Do you want
Do you want to
Do you wanna make love to me
I know you want to babe
I know you want to
I know you want to make love to me
Do you wanna
Do you wanna
Do you wanna make love to me
I know you wanna babe
I know you wanna
I know you wanna make love to me
* * *

gap
So per span it in the words,
"You're mine,"
It's easier to work,
But I don't mind,
You're better in defeat so,
Just don't try
To take away all the things
I'll do in my life.

I have to break down all
the corners of the world.
Don't heed this praise on me,
I know I don't deserve it.
But what's so this I see?
Yeah you're leaving right beside me,
And I miss you, and I need you.
I do.

But don't go, take my love,
I won't let you, I'm saying please don't go.
Don't go, take my love,
I won't let you, I'm saying please don't go.

Well leave your lover now,
it's your turn.
And see your mother now,
I hope she's okay.
You're better in defeat so,
let's not try
To take away all the things I'll do in our lives.

I have to break down all the corners of the world.
Don't heed this praise on me,
I know I don't deserve it.
But what's so this I see?
Yeah you're leaving right beside me,
And I miss you, and I need you.
I do.

But don't go, take my love,
I won't let you, I'm saying please don't go.
Don't go, take my love,
I won't let you, I'm saying please don't go.

All of my life,
trying to understand.
All of my life,
trying to hold a hand.

I have to break down all,
the corners of this world.
Don't heed this praise on me,
I know I don't deserve it.
But what's so this I see?
Yeah you're leaving right beside me,
And I miss you, and I love you.
That's true.
* * *

love it all
See I've got this woman here
She loves me all the time
No need for excuses
No pressures in my mind

And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all

My heart was living down
And I've been pushed over the line
But on your hand, it'd be broken
And I'll be all over this time

And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all

And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all

Love it all, love it all, love it all
And she said love it all, love it all, love it all
* * *

stormy weather
You ?? a stormy weather
from my window
You ain't, yeah, you ain't so clever
You got it all made up

But it feels like love, love, love
Oh yes, it feels like touch, touch, touch

I sit around to pass the time
I try to get it off my mind
And I live in a world oh so small
That I can't get around at all

And it feels like love, love, love
Oh yes, it feels like touch, touch, touch

What did I say?
What did I say?
What did I say?
Oh, I didn't mean it

What did I do
Or take of you?
Oh, I didn't mean it
Oh, oh, I didn't mean it!

I'm not saying it's all made up
It's people there, to comb your hair
And I'll think out another song
Won't kill that, so beautiful

So it feels like love, love, love
Oh yes, it feels like touch, touch, touch

What did I say?
What did I say?
What did I say?
Oh, I didn't mean it

What did I do
Or take of you?
What did I do?
Oh, I didn't mean it
Oh, oh, I didn't mean it!

And it feels like love, love, love,
Yes, it feels like touch, touch, touch...
* * *

sway
Say whatever you have to say, I'll stand by you.
Do whatever you have to do, to get it out and not become a reaction memory
To hurt the ones you love you know you never meant to but you do
oh yeah you do

Be whoever you have to be, I won't judge you
Sing whatever you have to sing to get it out and not become a recluse about how to come out
I know you never meant to but you do
oh but you do

Still I need your sway, because you always pay for it
And I, and I need your soul because your always soulful
And I and I need your heart, because your always in the right places

And take whatever you have to take, you know I love ya
come however you have to come, and get it out and get it out

Tttttake it out on me, take it out on me
I'll give it you all, I give it you all,i give it
I give you all I give it you all, yes I will give it you all

Cause I need your sway, because you always pay for it
And I, and I need your soul because your always soulful
And I and I need your heart, because your always in the right places

Oh yes I will, I will give it you all

Still I need your sway, because you always pay for it
And I, and I need your soul because your always soulful
And I and I need that heart, because your always in the right places.
* * *

shine on
Safety pins holding up the things
That make you mine
About your hair, you needn't care,
You look beautiful all the time.

Shine, shine, shine on
Yes
Wont you shine, shine on

Your magazines, at people at the seams
But you still read
I must admit, I don't believe in it
But I see how you get sucked in

Shine, shine, shine on
Yes
Wont you shine, shine on
(Sha la la la)
Shine, shine, shine on
Yes
Wont you shine, shine on

Because your not done

Why do you buy the hand that feeds you
Why do you
Why do you buy the hand that feeds...you!

Shine, shine, shine on
Yes
Wont you shine, shine on
(Sha la la la)
Shine, shine, shine on
Yes
Wont you shine, shine on

Safety pins holding up the things
That make you mine
About your hair, you needn't care
You look beautiful all the time.
* * *

down to the market
I'm gonna take you down to the market, lover
Cuz that's where the trouble starts
You gotta get it into your heart
There are people out there to make you feel bad
But don't you listen, baby don't you listen Because I know you feel that way

But I'm getting so tired of people always crossing my wires
Life's just far too short for miscommunication

I'm gonna take her down to the market today
Cuz that’s where the trouble starts
You don't want nobody else
There are people out there to make you feel good
But don't you listen, baby, don't you listen Because you know they want it all

But I'm getting so tired of people always crossing my wires
Life's just far too short for miscommunication.

Oh I'm getting so tired of people always crossing my wires
Life's just far too short for miscommunication.

Communication, communication
* * *

one last time
Can I hold you one last time
To fight the feeling that is growing in my mind
I know I did us both all so wrong
I know I'm not always all that strong

A-b-c-d-e-f and -g
Oh that reminds me of when we were free
Before life began to tear us apart
Remember those classes when we thought we were so smart

Ooooooooh
Ooooooooh

We were lovers in every way
Left school together, went back to my place
Now I can hardly remember her face
Before I met her I was ..sad

Ooooooooh
Ooooooooh

And can I hold you one last time
To fight this feeling that is growing in my mind.
* * *

tick of time
Oh honey please, don't shed no tears
As long as im here.....

Its far too early in the morning to be trying to call you
And far too early in the daytime to be thinking about that

But I, (but I), but I, (but I), but I am

What did i do in a past life, oh to deserve this
Yeah the way I make myself
He's far too innocent to be a part of such a cruel world
And it is, and it is and it is

And so I'll go, yes I'll go, so I'll take that train and ride.
Hoping I can write her a rhyme, that might stop the tick of time
Get off this situation and feel fine,
Get off this situation and feel fine.

What did i do to deserve her love,
I have to ask myself.
When i am such a bad man but only to her (only to her, only, only to her)

Oh and so I'll go, yes I'll go, so I'll take that train and ride.
Oh and so I'll go, yes I'll go, so I'll take that train and ride.
Wishing, hoping I can write her a rhyme, that might stop the tick of time
Get off this situation and feel fine,
Get off this situation and feel fine.
* * *

boy kill boy: stars and the sea

2008-04-23T02:13:05Z

promises
Promises, Promises
They're to be broken truth is forgotten honestly
apologies apologies
here's my confession i learned from my lesson long before

so toast the crimes the foes the fears
the truth behind the sober tears

chorus:
ill find my way back from the stars and the sea
this kind of journey just means nothing to me
I'll find my way back cause its easy you see
this seperation still means nothing to me, ohh

Promises, no promises
You treat this mess and ill repeat this message on the phone
apologies, no apologies,
you turn this friend into an enemy its gone long before...?

so toast the crimes the foes the fears
the truth behind the sober tears

chorus:
ill find my way back from the stars and the sea
this kind of journey just means nothing to me
I'll find my way back cause its easy you see
this seperation still means nothing to me, ohh

I went too far this time and
I got too less this time
and I tried to go and leave them all
behind

chorus:
i'll find my way back from the stars and the sea
this kind of journey just means nothing to me
I'll find my way back cause its easy you see
this separation still means nothing to me, ohh

dont make promises
dont make promises
dont make promises ohh
* * *

no conversation
Candy kisses, missing wishes.
It's a revelation too late.
Have a listen to this cold heart.
It's a revolution too late.
It has to be this way.

Please don't tell me now, please don't say it's over now.
There's no conversation, there's no conversation.
Please don't turn home now, tell me there's a way somehow.
With no conversation, without conversation.

Missing hours, I don't think so.
It's a recognition on time.
Be my weakness, you my saviour.
Just look in my eyes, this time.
Does it have to be this way?

Please don't tell me now, please don't say it's over now.
There's no conversation, there's no conversation.
Please don't turn home now, tell me there's a way somehow.
With no conversation, without conversation.

I don't fall for the same trick twice.
No I won't fall for the same thing twice.
No I won't fall for the same thing twice.

Please don't tell me now, please don't say it's over now.
There's no conversation, there's no conversation.
Please don't turn home now, tell me there's a way somehow.
With no conversation, without conversation
* * *

the last shadow puppets: the age of the understatment

2008-04-22T21:55:09Z

the age of the understatment
Decided
To sneak up away from your stomach
And try your pulse
And captured
What seemed all unknowing and candid
But they suspected it was false

She's playful
The boring would warn you be careful
Of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade

And she was walking on the tables in the glass house
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in her method of seduction
The twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlighten them to make you see

And there's affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

Affection to rent the age of the understatement
Before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat grow cold
* * *

standing next to me
You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through and you're open to the truth
I hope you understand
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me

The one you fell for
But it's seemed you deny
And you laugh at yourself again and again
But as you drink to the thoughts she'll remember you
maybe tomorrow

And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me.
Is standing next to me

You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through, then you're open to the truth
I hope you understand

And your love is standing next to me, is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me
* * *

calm like you
I can still remember
When your city smelt exciting
I still get a whiff
Of that aroma now and then
Burglary and fireworks
The skies they were alighting
Accidents and toffee drops
And thinking on the train

Oh, he was young, in the frost
No regard for the cost
Of saying his feelings
In the moment they were felt
And if he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye

Summertime made promises
It knew it couldn't keep
The fairytale was climbing up
A mountain far too steep
Colouring the pictures
With your loyal hand
Now I am craving heartbreak
While you're making your demands

Oh, he was young, in the frost
No regard for the cost
Of saying his feelings
In the moment they were felt
And if he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye

If he was calm like you
Locked up inside of your loops
Then he'd know for well
That all he had to say was
All he had to say was goodbye
* * *

separate and ever deadly
When we walked the streets together
All the faces seemed to smile back
And now the pavements
Have nothing to offer
And all the faces seem to need a slap

There's an unfamiliar grip
On an unfamiliar handkerchief
Attending to the tears on cheeks
I wouldn't notice
With you no matter how vicious the grief
Her expression was damp and crooked
Grabs onto my throat and won't let go

Won't let go
Won't let go
Won't let go

Save me from
The secateurs
I'll pretend
I didn't hear
Can't you see
I'm the ghost in the wrong coat
Biting butter and crumbs

There's a handsome maverick
You don't talk about to keep me calm
And I can't help
But try create diversion???
Pulls you back onto his arm

Please don't tell me
You don't have to darling I can sense
That he painted you a gushing sunset
And slayed
Their pink panthers in your defence
He stands separate and ever deadly
Clings onto my throat and won't let go

Won't let go
Won't let go
Won't let go

Save me from
The secateurs
I'll pretend
I didn't hear
Can't you see
I'm a ghost
In the wrong coat
Biting butter and crumbs
* * *

the chamber
Leave yourself alone
Leave yourself alone
(Leave yourself alone)
Can't you see
You're only here
To be torn apart
Based upon
And nothing else

So leave yourself alone
Leave yourself alone
Tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time
That I am worse

And I would wish they'd all
Give him a chance
I owe apologies
So tell your wasted time
Tell your wasted time

It's torture
Locked inside the chamber

Cornered by yourself
Cornered by yourself
(Cornered by yourself)
You must admit
That you are the instigator
Hanging on to arguements

And your cornered
By yourself
Cornered by yourself

It's torture
Locked inside the chamber
Lost inside the chamber
Locked inside the chamber

About right I think
* * *

only the truth
Only the truth
She reckoned she owed
Only the truth
She reckoned she owes

The way she walks
Is scripted and taught
Don't give her an eye
She snipered your mind
See by her hands
That she's been there before
She lifts up her glass
As if to bring down a mess

Only the truth
She reckoned she owes
Only the truth
She reckoned she owes

Climbing the stairs
As if to follow her there
Her golden lace boots
May stop your right there
Hands on your arm
She greets all your friends
Twist of a lime
It seems a bitter end

Only the truth
She reckoned she owes
Only the truth
She reckoned she owes

The girl with many
Different strategies
Wakes the wolves
To curse them
To their knees
She's in the one
By the riverbank
So it's easier for her
To drown you
And she claims
Oh, she claims

It's only the truth
She holds in her hands
It's only the truth
She holds in her hands
* * *

my mistakes were made for you
As subtle as an earthquake I know,
My mistakes were made for you.
And in the back-room of a bad dream she came,
And whisked me away, enthused
And it's as solid as a rock, rolling down a hill
The fact is that it probably will, hit something
On the hazardous terrain
And we're just following the flock, round and in-between
Before we're smashed to smithereens, like they were
And we scrambled from the blame
and it's the fame that put words in her mouth, she couldn't help but spit them out.
Innocence and arrogance intwined
In the filthiest of minds
She was spitting on her birthday, and now
A face in the crowd, she's not
I suspect that now forever, the shape, she came to escape
Is forgot.
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting, and give her less than everything
Around your guilty conscience she will wind
And we're just following the flock, round and in-between
Before we're smashed to smithereens, like they were
And we scrambled from the blame
and it's the fame that put words in her mouth, she couldn't help but spit them out,
Around your guilty conscience she will wind.
And it's a lot to ask her not to sting, and give her less than everything,
Innocence and arrogance intwined
* * *

black plant
He bit your lip
And on the tip
Of your tongue
Was your view
The heavy belt
With how you felt
In ways
That tilted you

The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie

Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say
Why would you say

You said there
Was a nagging lack of smiles
Went dancing on your back
Tenderness a plenty book
That wasn't what you craved
His whole thin heart desire
Start to make demands
And he adored you
Would be a fool
To make your plans with her

Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you

When it's just one
Of many bullets
You will bite
While waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light
Waiting
For a ray of light

The paper cuts
From the love letter
You never gave him
Could not meet
Your new found meat
A misbehaving lie

Why
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you say sorry
Oh, why would you
Why would you say sorry
* * *

i don't like you anymore
I don't like you anymore
And fallen for the phone again
Enticed me for a second time today
Only for me to realise the same

I don't like you anymore
Cracked and your face is changing
You're going down the old route
But I can't let your repeat and repeat it again
The sound of your voice
Is piercing my patience
As you turn through the midnight corridors

Can we keep in your resent
Retire to the setting a hint
Drying in an old familiar cast
Twitching as I fear it's far too late

Cause I don't like you anymore
I don't like you anymore

I don't like you anymore
Cracked and your face is changing
You're going down the old route
But I can't let you repeat and repeat it again
The sound of your voice
Is piercing my patience
As you turn through the midnight corridors

And there's stuff in the corridors
There is no escape from these
No offence to your trap and be your disease
Well you are just a something to cease
And you swear that you think that you tease
But you pout which is about
And your final lie can be described as fine
It can be described as fine
* * *

in my room
In my room she'll get to you
In my room she'll get to you
In my room

Could I turn on the light
Inpress unknown eyes
Humour absorbs the thoughts
Challenge emotionless thoughts
Seeing things with a second glance
As she turns through her magazines

In my room she'll get to you
In my room she'll get to you
In my room

Could I turn on the light
Inpress unknown eyes
Humour absorbs the thoughts
Lift up your sorted heads
Played like dancing fools
Turning the tension round
Building up silent sounds

Just another day
Oh in my room
Shruck out like before
Oh in my room
Room
Room
Room
Room
* * *

meeting place
The Colder the night gets
The further she strains
And he doesn't like it
Being this way

And she tried so hard
To steer away
From the meeting place
But her heart had left her there

She clings to his consciousness
Wherever he layed
Struggles to sleep at night
And during the day

He's worried she's waiting in his dreams
To drag him back to the meeting place
His love had left in there
Where the voices still echoes

I'm sorry I met you darling
I'm sorry I met you
As she turned into the night
All he had was the words
"I'm sorry I met you darling
I'm sorry I left you"

Four weeks they had trolled around
Playing the fools
They knew the time would come
And time would be cruel

Because it is cruel to everyone
He is crying out from the meeting place
He stranded himself there
Where the voice still echo

I'm sorry I met you darling
I'm sorry I met you
As she turned into the night
All he had was the words
"I'm sorry I met you darling
I'm sorry I left you"

I'm sorry I met you darling
I'm sorry I've left you
* * *

the time has come again
The time has come again
Slowly walking down the steps
To where she would have been
If only they were seventeen

Waiting patiently
He stood between her *fray scene*
Hiding from himself
As well as everybody else

Without *a mission*
His face became *lent*
He thought that he learned
How to not get upset
From folded notes in envelopes
"Meet me beneath the moon"
Don't go too soon
She went too soon

The time has come again
Slowly walking down the steps
To where she would have been
If only they were seventeen
* * *